Download or read book Soot Formation in Diffusion Flames of Alternative Turbine Fuels at Elevated Pressures written by Arup Barua and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book High pressure Soot Formation and Diffusion Flame Extinction Characteristics of Gaseous and Liquid Fuels written by Ahmet Emre Karatas and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Experimental and Numerical Studies for Soot Formation in Laminar Coflow Diffusion Flames of Jet A 1 and Synthetic Jet Fuels written by Meghdad Saffaripour and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effect of Elevated Pressure on Soot Formation in a Laminar Jet Diffusion Flame written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soot volume fraction (f[subscript sv]) is measured quantitatively in a laminar diffusion flame at elevated pressures up to 25 atmospheres as a function of fuel type in order to gain a better understanding of the effects of pressure on the soot formation process. Methane and ethylene are used as fuels; methane is chosen since it is the simplest hydrocarbon while ethylene represents a larger hydrocarbon with a higher propensity to soot. Soot continues to be of interest because it is a sensitive indicator of the interactions between combustion chemistry and fluid mechanics and a known pollutant. To examine the effects of increased pressure on soot formation, Laser Induced Incandescence (LII) is used to obtain the desired temporally and spatially resolved, instantaneous f[subscript sv] measurements as the pressure is incrementally increased up to 25 atmospheres. The effects of pressure on the physical characteristics of the flame are also observed. A laser light extinction method that accounts for signal trapping and laser attenuation is used for calibration that results in quantitative results. The local peak f[subscript sv] is found to scale with pressure as p[superscript 1.2] for methane and p[superscript 1.7] for ethylene.

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Download or read book Soot Measurements in High Pressure Diffusion Flames of Gaseous and Liquid Fuels written by Gorngrit Intasopa and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methane-air, ethane-air, and n-heptane-air over-ventilated co-flow laminar diffusion flames were studied up to pressures of 2.03, 1.52, and 0.51 MPa, respectively, to determine the effect of pressure on flame shape, soot concentration, and temperature. A spectral soot emission optical diagnostic method was used to obtain the spatially resolved soot formation and temperature data. In all cases, soot formation was enhanced by pressure, but the pressure sensitivity decreased as pressure was increased. The maximum fuel carbon conversion to soot, etamax, was approximated by a power law dependence with the pressure exponent of 0.92 between 0.51 and 1.01 MPa, and 0.68 between 1.01 and 2.03 MPa with etamax=9.5% at 2.03 MPa for methane-air flames. For ethane-air flames, the pressure exponent was 1.57 between 0.20 and 0.51 MPa, 1.08 between 0.51 and 1.01 MPa, and 0.58 between 1.01 and 1.52 MPa where etamax=23% at 1.52 MPa. For nitrogen-diluted n-heptane-air flames, etamax=6.5% at 0.51 MPa.

Download or read book Soot Nanostructure Evolution from Gas Turbine Engine Premixed and Diffusion Flame written by Chung-hsuan Huang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combustion generated soot impacts human health and climate. Particulate emissions from combustors on jet aircraft are relevant to each area, occurring at ground level and at altitude. One of the advantages of alternative fuels is their potential for reducing emission levels. Comparative field-testing of alternative fuels for their emissions was conducted in the Alternative Aviation Fuel Experiment II (AAFEX II), a NASA-led ground-based field campaign. In this study, particulate emissions from a CFM-56-2C1 engine aboard a DC-9 aircraft were characterized by HRTEM and XPS for nanostructure, carbon speciation and surface chemistry. Fuels studied included JP-8, a 50:50 (JP-8 & HRJ) blend, Hydrotreated Renewable Jet (HRJ), and a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthetic fuel. Soot nanostructure and surface chemistry are examined across engine power levels from 4% to 100%. Nanostructure ranged from amorphous (reflecting organic carbon) to graphitic (reflecting elemental carbon) as characterized by lamellae length analysis. With JP-8 fuel, soot particle bonding chemistry, as inferred from the XPS ratio for sp2/sp3 carbon is compared to soot nanostructure evolution. Increasing lamellae length is found to strongly correlate with increasing sp2/sp3 ratio with increasing engine power -- suggesting a change in species identity contributing to the soot growth process. Comparisons between fuels for the same power levels yielded insights into differences in soot processes as dependent upon initial fuel. Soots from the renewable HRJ and FT fuels exhibit significant nanostructure at each power level, rather than the progression as observed for JP-8. This difference is associated with differences in the soot formation environments as dependent upon fuel. To further examine the correlation between chemical environment and soot structure as manifested on different physical length scales, primary particle size versus lamellae length was compared. For JP-8 and its blend with HRJ, there is correlation with engine power, i.e. each spatial metric increases with increasing power, suggesting common underlying cause(s) for both observations. For the HRJ and FT fuels, there is no discernable trend. These results are interpreted in terms of the aromatic content of the JP-8 and blended fuels and their different pyrolysis kinetics compared to paraffinic components of the fuels. Observations of fullerenic nanostructure, particularly evident in soots from the pure paraffinic fuels were interpreted as reflecting partial premixing in order to produce the C5 membered rings for lamellae curvature. This led to the hypothesis defining this study: Partially premixed combustion produces soot with fullerenic nanostructure. Curvature is that one special feature of nanostructure that can be related back to particular gas phase specie(s), namely cyclopentadiene and PAHs containing 5-membered rings.This hypothesis was tested in the following two laboratory flame studies. Partial premixing within simple gas jet diffusion flames has a very long history -- stemming back to the Bunsen flame. Yet HRTEM data of soot from such flames appears absent. In the first study cyclopentane was used as fuel to test lamellae curvature dependence upon C5 species. Modest curvature was observed -- given competing fuel pyrolysis and ring dehydrogenation to yield cyclopentadiene, referred to as C5. Using benzene as the primary fuel with partial premixing tested the chemical path for C5 production -- proceeding through partial benzene oxidation yielding the phenoxy radical followed by CO loss to produce C5. A strong variation of lamellae curvature with oxygen content in the primary fuel stream was observed -- reflecting the increasing C5 production rate. Generality of the nanostructure dependence upon partial premixing and associated change in gas phase chemistry (compared to pure thermal pyrolysis) was demonstrated using an ordinary laboratory Bunsen burner with ethylene as fuel. In absence of partial premixing, soot production is well described by the HACA mechanism, C6 PAHs with observed flat lamellae, without curvature, dissimilar to observations here accompanying partial premixing.In the third study, the main goal was to test two main parameters -- adiabatic flame temperature (2000K) and fuel/air equivalence ratio ([phi] = 2.0) -- for their relative impact on soot nanostructure formation. The soots were collected from a burner-stabilized flat flame burning the petroleum-based JP-8, synthetic FT, and surrogate -- iso-Octane/n-Dodecane, m-Xylene/n-Dodecane, and n-Dodecane -- fuels on a McKenna burner. Images from high-resolution transmission microscopy (HRTEM) show that for the same equivalence ratio of [phi] = 2.0 with temperature maintained constant, soot from the FT fuel has significant curvature compared to soot from the JP-8 fuel, as also found in FT-derived soot from the jet engine. This comparative observation indicates two major findings. First is that the soot nanostructure depends upon initial fuel composition -- and by extension molecular structure. Similar findings from diesel engine studies have also been documented by Yehliu (2010) 1. Second is that fuel pyrolysis pathways and products also depend upon the fuel components. Adjustment of flame adiabatic temperature suggests a temperature threshold for realization of such differences. Soot nanostructure comparisons with a surrogate fuel mixture of n-dodecane/m-xylene (75:25 wt.%) further illustrate pyrolysis processes and intermediates as dependent upon fuel molecular structure and components present. To further compare the experimental results, CHEMKIN with the SERDP mechanism using the burner-stabilized flame model was carried out and processed for the three surrogate fuels, iso-Octane, n-Dodecane, and m-Xylene at various reaction temperatures and fuel/air equivalence ratios. Both the C5H5/C6H6 ratio and C3H3 profiles were distinctly different between the pure n-dodecane and m-xylene/n-dodecane mixture. That the C3H3 profile is also the main difference between the iso-octane and surrogate fuel mix suggests that C3H3 participation in 5-membered ring formation is also key to introduction of 2-D curvature in lamella -- especially given that the highest curvature is observed for FT fuel soot. Moreover, by these results the higher C5H5 observed for the surrogate mixture is an inferred consequence of the different C3H3 profile. Presently these calculated values are only used to interpret the observed curvature differences, as threshold values or the concentration dependency of curvature upon particular species are currently unknown.The goal of this study was to build a bridge between molecular gas phase species and the soot nanostructure. Initial observations of nanostructure curvature in jet engine soot prompted interest. Current chemical kinetic models can address fuel breakdown, thermal and oxidatively assisted, PAH formation and growth all via detailed kinetics, followed by soot inception via their physical and chemical coalescence. Thereafter soot models are particle based and use measured growth rates and aerosol dynamics to account for increasing soot mass and aggregate formation. No modeling studies have yet addressed the link between gas phase species with any aspect of soot nanostructure. As shown here soot nanostructure can reflect its origin, specifically the species forming the soot lamellae. The novelty of two-dimensional curvature is that it can be related uniquely to C5 species, via known chemical pathways -- involving oxygen directly or indirectly. The oxygen concentration in the primary fuel stream defines the level of partial premixing. Therein lies the origin of the hypothesis that partial premixing leads to (recognizable) curvature in soot lamellae. Definition of the operative range of [phi] and temperature will constitute future work for C5 production and its manifestation as curvature in nanostructure.

Download or read book Soot Formation in Laminar Jet Diffusion Flames at Elevated Pressures written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fundamental characterization of alternate fuel effects in continuous combustion systems written by Exxon Research and Engineering Company. Government Research Laboratories and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fuel Structure and Pressure Effects on the Formation of Soot Particles in Diffusion Flames written by Robert J. Santoro and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first year of the present grant, efforts have concentrated on examining the effects of fuel molecular structure on soot formation in diffusion flames. Studies involving alkane, alkene, alkyne and aromatic fuel species have been studied with specific attention given to the surface growth process. Analysis of these studies has demonstrated a strong fuel structure dependence for the amount of soot formed, the conversion percentage of fuel carbon to soot, and the soot particle surface area present in these diffusion flames. However, when surface area taken into account, similar specific surface growth rate coefficients are observed for all the fuels studied. These results point to a similar surface growth process for all the fuels. Consistent with premixed flame results, the present studies show a continual decrease in this specific surface growth rate coefficient with time. Other effects of fuel structure observed include an acceleration of the inception of soot particles to lower locations and, thus, earlier times in the flame as soot conversion percentage increases. These results also point to the importance of the initial particle inception process which appears to control subsequent soot particle evolution. Keywords: Soot formation; Soot particles; Diffusion flames.

Download or read book Fuel Molecular Structure and Flame Temperature Effects on Soot Formation in Gas Turbine Combustors written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soot Formation at High Pressures in Laminar Liquid and Gaseous Fuel Flames written by Adriana Elizabeth Daca and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soot Formation in Propane air Laminar Diffusion Flames at Elevated Pressures microform written by Decio S. (Decio Santos) Bento and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laminar axisymmetric propane air diffusion flames were studied at pressures 0.1 to 0.725 MPa (1 to 7.25 atm). To investigate the effect of pressure on soot formation, radially resolved soot temperatures and soot volume fractions were deduced from soot radiation emission scans collected at various pressures using spectral soot emission (SSE). Overall flame stability was quite good as judged by the naked eye. Flame heights varied by 15% and flame axial diameters decreased by 30% over the entire pressure range.Analysis of temperature sensitivity to variations in E lambda(m) revealed that a change in E lambda(m) of +/-20% produced a change in local temperature values of about 75 to 100 K or about 5%.Temperatures decreased and soot concentration increased with increased pressure. More specifically, the peak soot volume fraction showed a power law dependence, fv ∝ Pn where n = 2.0 over the entire pressure range. The maximum integrated soot volume fraction also showed a power law relationship with pressure, f ̄v ∝ Pn where n = 3.4 for 1 ≤ P ≤ 2 atm and n = 1.4 for 2 ≤ P ≤ 7.25 atm. The percentage of fuel carbon converted to soot increased with pressure at a rate, etas ∝ Pn where n = 3.3 and n = 1.1 for 1 ≤ P ≤ 2 atm and 2 ≤ P ≤ 7.25 atm respectively.

Download or read book Soot in Combustion Systems and Its Toxic Properties written by J. Lahaye and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our interest in Mulhouse for carbon black and soot began some 30 years ago when J.B. Donnet developed the concept of surface chemistry of carbon and its involvement in interactions with gas, liquid and solid phases. In the late sixties, we began to study soot formation in pyrolytic systems and later on in flames. The idea of organ1z1ng a meeting on soot formation originated some four or five years ago, through discussions among Professor J.B. Howard, Dr. A. D'Alessio and ourselves. At that time the scientific community was becoming aware of the necessity to strictly control soot formation and emission. Being involved in the study of surface properties of carbon black as well as of formation of soot, we realized that the combustion community was not always fully aware of the progress made by the physical-chemists on carbon black. Reciprocally, the carbon specialists were often ignoring the research carried out on soot in flames. One objective of this workshop was to stimulate discussions between these two scientific communities. During the preparation of the meeting, and especially during the review process by the Material Science Committee of the Scientific Affairs Division of N.A.T.O. the toxicological aspect emerged as being an important component to be addressed during the workshop. To reflect these preoccupations we invited biologists, physical chemists and engineers, all leaders in their field. The final programme is a compromise of the different aspects of the subject and was divided in five sessions.

Download or read book Soot Formation in Non premixed Laminar Flames at Subcritical and Supercritical Pressures written by Hyun Il Joo and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experimental study was conducted using axisymmetric co-flow laminar diffusion flames of methane-air, methane-oxygen and ethylene-air to examine the effect of pressure on soot formation and the structure of the temperature field. A liquid fuel burner was designed and built to observe the sooting behavior of methanol-air and n-heptane-air laminar diffusion flames at elevated pressures up to 50 atm. A non-intrusive, line-of-sight spectral soot emission (SSE) diagnostic technique was used to determine the temperature and the soot volume fraction of methane-air flames up to 60 atm, methane-oxygen flames up to 90 atm and ethylene-air flames up to 35 atm. The physical flame structure of the methane-air and methane-oxygen diffusion flames were characterized over the pressure range of 10 to 100 atm and up to 35 atm for ethylene-air flames. The flame height, marked by the visible soot radiation emission, remained relatively constant for methane-air and ethylene-air flames over their respected pressure ranges, while the visible flame height for the methane-oxygen flames was reduced by over 50 % between 10 and 100 atm. During methane-air experiments, observations of anomalous occurrence of liquid material formation at 60 atm and above were recorded. The maximum conversion of the carbon in the fuel to soot exhibited a strong power-law dependence on pressure. At pressures 10 to 30 atm, the pressure exponent is approximately 0.73 for methane-air flames. At higher pressures, between 30 and 60 atm, the pressure exponent is approximately 0.33. The maximum fuel carbon conversion to soot is 12.6 % at 60 atm. For methane-oxygen flames, the pressure exponent is approximately 1.2 for pressures between 10 and 40 atm. At pressures between 50 and 70 atm, the pressure exponent is about -3.8 and approximately -12 for 70 to 90 atm. The maximum fuel carbon conversion to soot is 2 % at 40 atm. For ethylene-air flames, the pressure exponent is approximately 1.4 between 10 and 30 atm. The maximum carbon conversion to soot is approximately 6.5 % at 30 atm and remained constant at higher pressures.

Download or read book The Effect of Elevated Pressure on Soot Formation in a Laminar Jet Diffusion Flame written by Laura Lynne McCrain and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: diffusion flame, high pressure, soot formation.

Download or read book Effects of Elevated Pressure on Soot Formation in Laminar Diffusion Flames written by L. L. McCrain and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: